A dentist and dad, Dr. Abbas Mohammadi, is making it fun for the city's kids to learn how to care for their teeth.
Every Saturday at 11:30am at Columbia Dental's Professor Tooth Cultural Center, 242 Trumbull Street in Hartford, parents can bring their...

Joseph McNamara, the former San Jose police chief whose outspoken criticism of the war on drugs, the gun lobby and Daryl Gates gave him a national profile as a progressive leader in law enforcement, died Friday at his home in Carmel. He was 79.
The...

A one-year experiment of holding the draft the first full weekend in May is on hold, but the 2015 NFL draft is indeed on the move.
According to ESPN, the 2015 draft will be held April 30-May 2, with the first round in primetime. Moving the draft up...

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Stars can be fans of their own shows, for sure. But usually they reserve their true geekery for someone else's show. And that's true of "Scandal's" Kerry Washington too.
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An internal review found no evidence Ken Lewis, the prosecutor whose Facebook post addressed to "crack hoes" went viral this summer, behaved in a biased manner while handling cases in recent years, records show.
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When it came to raising money for their high-rise home, more than a dozen women at Episcopal House in Allentown rallied around an idea.
They agreed to be calendar girls.
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This all came about because Episcopal House, a...

Allen Ward Sr., a longtime machine shop owner and member of the Rotary Club of Manchester, died Sept. 23. He was 99.
Ward, who was born in Andover, Mass., came to Connecticut in 1935 when he had the opportunity to work on airplanes at Chance Vought Aircraft.
"He was a guy who knew what he was very early in life," said his son, Allen Ward Jr.
That's why after high school, Ward Sr. decided to enroll at the New England Aircraft School in Boston instead of college. He learned his skills there and used...

Wending our way to the Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, we cross a creek, meander down a country road, then come to a farm with red barns, split-rail fences and flocks of sheep grazing in the green pastures.
We walk past the cream-colored sheep with their pink noses and pink ears joined by a few mules and an occasional black sheep and come to the Cheese Store, a wooden sign hanging over two glass-door refrigerators built into a red wall outside the barn. In those refrigerators sit some of the...